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I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into pillars of salt.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Will, Pillars, Side, Salt

The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards both China and America. To push back against Chinese adventurism by deepening Philippine dependence on another power runs counter to the very logic of protecting its national sovereignty.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Against, Another, Very, Chinese

Obviously, the Philippines or any regional state can never match Chinese defense spending, but we will have to develop minimum deterrence capabilities that allow us to resist and inflict sufficient retaliation if China continues to undermine Philippine territorial integrity.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Integrity, Allow, Regional, Chinese

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Desire, Best Way, Dalai Lama, Unhappiness

Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion.

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I Am, May, Although, I May Not

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Poverty, Attention, Cancer, Corruption

Sexy is the attraction that is given as an encomium to women or men, or the capacity to attract the attention of the opposite sex because of their physical attributes.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Sexy, Attract, Given, Attraction

In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture.

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Been, Interconnected, Global, Distributed

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Doing, Over, Acceptable, Attuned

I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God.

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Death, Cliff, Putting, Dictate

I'm not in the habit of going to a psychologist. I psychologize myself.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Myself, Habit, Going, Psychologist

The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Security, Will, Abandon, National Security

As a factual matter, as in countries all over the world, technology and business practices have been running faster than legal responses and developments.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Over, Been, Developments, Practices

I articulate the deepest need of the Filipino people, which is reform of a corrupt culture.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Corrupt, Which, Reform, Filipino

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

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Living, Political Leaders, Women Are

My father said, 'Aren't you going to do anything to help people? We have a whole rack of relatives who are always breaking the law. At least help your relatives.' And so that's what I did.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Law, Always, Rack, Relatives

We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Laws, Works, Lives, Legislators

It is illegal for the budget department to discriminate among senators.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Illegal, Among, Discriminate, Department

There is nothing wrong with centralizing the budget in Manila. We are such a small country.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Small, Country, Nothing, Manila

I want to be known as Terminator 2.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Want, Known, Terminator

My style is confrontational: when I see evil, I want to remove it right away.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Want, Away, I See, Confrontational

I don't think so-called high technology matters in death. I think they had high technology before Noah's Ark. And it got lost because that was the first Ice Age.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Death, Think, I Think, So-Called

Planet Earth is estimated to have a lifetime of nine billion years. And we're right smack in the middle of our lifetime. We've been in the universe for 4.5 billion years. So, that should mean something. We should sort of take a look at where we came from and where we are going.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Lifetime, Been, Nine, Planet Earth

Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Half, Our, Favour, Highly

Originally in the United States, there were no laws regulating behavioral advertising. As a result, like in the Philippines, government has relied on industry self-regulation.

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Laws, United, United States, Philippines

I do not have any strong desire to remain in government. When my task is done, I shall be happy to leave and enhance my love life with my husband.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Love, Strong, Desire, Love Life

Energy is always a matter of psychology for every individual.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Matter, Always, Psychology, Energy

Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Controls, Very, Regulate, Instructed

Entering politics is a fate worse than death.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Death, Politics, Fate, Entering

I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options.

- Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Career, Actually, Several, Options

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